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KEPT GUNS HOT BY
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Battle In Waters Around
Crete Writes New Chapter
In Naval History, Is Word
Br terry Allen.
Alexandria, Egypt, May 28
WO British warships In the wat
er! around Crete wrote a new
chapter of courage under one of
the heaviest air attacks In his
tory, naval sources here said to
day, when, amid Incessant battle
against hundreds of Nazi dive
bombers, they prevented the
landing by sea of a single Ger
man soldier on that island.
Constantly attacked by Nazi
fliers, dropping 1,000 -pound
bombs as the ships of the royal
navy broke up axis convoys at
tempting to reinforce air-borne
divisions already on the island,
the guns of the British warships
turned red-hot firing thousands
of shells into the swarms of sky
raiders. Continuous Fire.
Officers said British battle
ships, cruisers and destroyers,
smashing one convoy and scatter
ing a large expeditionary force
of 30 vessels, flung six-inch and
four-inch anti-aircraft shells at
swooping dive-bombers continu
ously from dawn to dusk on
May 22.
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It was a day, they said, which
will go down In history as mark
ing one of the biggest aerial as
saults ever made upon warships.
Scores of German dive-bombers
were shot down by the ships'
anti-aircraft batteries, the Brit
ish said, while the other guns
of the fleet were sinking one
Italian destroyer and two trans
ports; and blasting swarms of
caiques (fishing boats) carrying
between 9,000 and 8,000 Nazis
practically all of whom drowned.
Convoy Broken Up.
One squadron of cruisers and
destroyers, they said, broke up
an axis convoy of at least 30
vessels with gunfire, forcing its
remnants to flee northward to
ward Greece.
Returning to this Egyptian
base aboard a battleship before
the big air-blitz around Crete
began, I learned later from offi
cers of other naval units how
the British seamen even after
their fighter aircraft protection
had been withdrawn from Crete
gave the Nazis some of the
hottest barrages yet seen in this
war.
For five days after leaving
their base most units of the fleet
were constantly at action sta
tions, with Nazi bombers swoop
ing overhead in great masses.
England's gaaollne ration now per
mits the ordinary driver to travel
approximately aoo miles a month.
It hu been estimated that about
06,000 square miles of Alaskan ter
ritory could be developed for farming.
More than 160,000 men have ap
plied for admittance to the Aus
tralian air force In the last year,
that country'a air department an
nounces.
The Mississippi river and Us tribu
taries drain 19 states, or about two-
Ilfths the area of the United States.
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Los Angeles, May 28 VP)
Detectives killed a butler today
after, they reported, he bound a
wnoiesaie mercnam ana a maid,
threatened the merchant's son
with a gun and sole $200.
Detective Lleuts. Wallace
Greetran and William Molle
trapped Ben Smith, 28, In the
William Klatscher home and
shot him after, they said, he
threatened to kill them. They
ioia this story:
Smith, emnloved at Kt.
scher's palatial home in the Wil
shire district, entered the house
shortly after midnight, bound
the maid, Smiles Love. 48, and
forced William Klatscher, Jr.
16, to bind his father.
While he KeareheA Inr mnnjv
Jeanette Klatscher, 22, freed her
xainer. Klatscher, Sr., went to
a neighbor's and called police.
As they arrived, Smith sought
refuge in a closet, using the
boy as a shield, and cried "I'll
kill anybody that comes through
that door."
William, Jr., shoved Smith
and grabbed his gun. The de
tectives killed Smith.
CRETAN CHUTISTS
Berlin, May 28. (IP) Max
Schmeling, former world heavy
weight boxing champion, was
among the parachutists landed
in Crete, well-informed sources
reported today.
Schmeling was accepted as a
volunteer in the nazl parachute
forces during the summer of
1940 although he was overage,
at 33, and considerably over
weight for that particular
branch of the service.
Last October he sufferer) a
leg fracture in a practice Jump.
liter ne had recovered, news
reel pictures of him going
through various training move
ments and finally making a
headlong dive from a niano
were widely displayed in Ger
man theaters.
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ident of the International Alli
ance of Theatrical Stage Em
ployes, and William Bioff (bot
tom), were Indicted In New
York under federal anti-racketeering
laws. They wars accused
of extorting $550,000 from four
leading movie producers and
distributors through threats to
tie up the movie industry with
a strike.
Aztec Ruins Kattonal Monument In
weetero New Mexico embraces a great
E-shaperl atmcture built by atone
age architects and maaona more than
800 years ago.
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TWO JAPS INDICTED
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San Francisco, May 28. OP)
Two Japanese were indicted by
the federal grand jury today on
a charge that they attempted
to export defense tools in viola
tion of national defcw icgula
tions. The two, Glzo Yueno, 34, and
Shiro Higuchl, 36, were arrest
ed May 10. Assistant U. S. Attor
ney James T. Davis said thev
had tried to export to Japan
about 3,600 steel drills.
Yueno operated a candy shop
here; Higuchl drove truck for a
Japanese warehouse company.
Four months ago, Davis said,
Yueno went to Japan. On his re
turn he asked Higuchl to pack
his furniture for shipment to
Japan. At the warehouse, the
attorney stated, Higuchl was
told to pack steel drills in the
furniture and to pack others in
crates marked condensed milk.
On May 16 customs agents
found milk cases in Yueno's cab
in on the Japanese liner Asama
Maru. The cases, Davis said,
were packed with steel drills,
and others were found in the
furniture en route to the ship.
The men had been in jail
since their arrest.
TO VOTEQUOTAS
Washington, May 28. fP)
Chairman Fulmer (D. S.C.) of
the house agriculture commit
tee, today appealed to wheat
farmers to vote for marketing
quotas on their 1941 crop in a
special farmer referendum Sat
urday. "If Quotas are disannrnveri
farmers may look for greatly de
creased prices for their wheat.
because the AAA wheat pro
gram is holding domestic wheat
above the world level," he said
in a statement.
Fulmer also warned govern
ment loans on wheat, now fixed
by law at 83 per cent of parity,
would be prohibited if quotas
were not approved.
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was lowest of six bidders today
for Installation and construction
of a gasoline storage and fueling
system at the CAA Pendleton
airport, the U. S. army engineers
announced.
Deluca's bid was $173,000.
Bids on a sewage disposal
plant at the Pendleton airport
will be opened May 29.
To man the fleet now being con
templated. th TJ. 8. navy must train
18.000 otflcera by 1947.
The United Statea haa about 128.
000 mtlea or on pipeline and the
rest or the world 11.000 mtlea.
Nw Tork'a 11,000 firemen fought
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Butte Falls, May 28. (Spl.)
Formation of a Boy Scout troop
here got under way. last night
with a meeting of committee
men who are sponsoring the
troop. Scoutmaster Is Virgil
Clark, and members of the com
mittee are W. I. Petterson, chair
man; Clay Conley, Clyde Smith,
Ted Fredenburg and Gus Ed
mondson. The committee-, which will
meet every second Wednesday
of every month, plans to finance
the troop by small individual
donations from residents of the
community.
First meeting of the troop will
be held Tuesday night, June 3,
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